On Thursday 17 December 2009 02:37:54 Robert Bridge wrote: > dd is pretty thorough... afterall, it writes to every single block on the > disk. >
And the resulting effect from doing that once is: Trivially easy to recover the data that was there just before you did the dd Why? Data on-disk is not a binary cell like ram. It is a magnetic pattern and the pattern from the previous write is still there IIF you know how to find it -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
